Public Health
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Redesigning the US Mental Health Care System
Redesigning the US Mental Health Care System brings together an array of experts working to spark lasting change in mental health care systems across the United States. It creates a vision of a unified continuum of care designed to serve people at the right time and in the right place.
June 2025
June 2025
Psychology of Mental Health
Psychology of Mental Health will place our current understanding of mental health in context, both historically and culturally. It will discuss various models for understanding mental health, research on causes of mental health problems, and will introduce recent psychology-led alternatives to diagnosis.
June 2025
June 2025
Health and Safety Information for Teen Travelers
Provides basic health and safety information for teen travelers, covering various types of travel, modes of transportation, accommodation options, common travel illnesses, preparation tips, and safety measures during travel and at destinations.
June 2025
June 2025
Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance
This book updates the reader with new developments in the field and focuses on the information a strength and conditioning coach needs to be informed and successful.
June 2025
June 2025
Adolescent Health & Wellness
This title is designed to address three major areas that typically affect adolescents: physical and emotional issues; non-health topics with tremendous potential impact, like safe sex, paying for college, bullying, and leadership; and socially relevant issues, like shopping locally and recycling.
June 2025
June 2025
Health Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practice
Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior--important facets of the public health role.
June 2025
June 2025
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama.
June 2025
June 2025
Perceptions of a Pandemic : A Cross-Continental Comparison of Citizen Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors During Covid-19
While responses to the Covid-19 pandemic varied based on the timing of the onset of cases and the severity of the disease, Perceptions of a Pandemic analyzes and compares the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in the US and Finland during the pandemic's early stages and relates these to health and wellbeing outcomes after the pandemic ended.
Published June 2025
Published June 2025
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge
The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask: why was the country--which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event--caught so unprepared? Critics pointed to a number of candidates for blame: a President who was dismissive of scientific expertise and indifferent to the task of leading government response; a fragmented media landscape that enabled misinformation to prosper; a slow-footed health bureaucracy incapable of flexible response; and social disparities that heightened inequities in the impact of disease.
Published June 2025
Published June 2025
Handbook of inequality and COVID-19
In this comprehensive Handbook, Kenneth Couch brings together expert contributors to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 on new and pre-existing inequalities in health, work, and education. While sharper impacts on pre-existing cross-group disparities were often resolved by vaccinations and the lifting of restrictions, this important work indicates that in many respects disadvantaged groups will endure lasting negative effects from the pandemic.
Published June 2025
Published June 2025